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I can't imagine how the wild turkey are going to fare this winter? All of central Ma is burning under more than 3' of snow with more falling as well speak.

There was almost certainly a winter kill last year. I'll bet this one will be even more severe.

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Ours got wiped out LAST winter...can't imagine what this one is going to do to them :( I know a guy a little northeast of me who had a half dozen fly up to roost on his property last winter just before a huge ice storm.... They never came down alive.....the ice froze their nostrils over and they died right in the spruce boughs..... :thdwn: Coyotes, fox, and hawks will surely give them hell too......

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I think there getting hammered : ( Saw a large group roosted last week and there was no way they could fly down into the soft snow.... Now 10 to 15 below zero....
Here's a pic of the birds I was talking about, it was a week ago Monday after the storm. There was maybe double the number you see but the wouldn't fit in the frame. A couple flew from tree to tree while we were watching.......I wonder how many are dead now. 1865398
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I can't imagine how the wild turkey are going to fare this winter? All of central Ma is burning under more than 3' of snow with more falling as well speak. There was almost certainly a winter kill last year. I'll bet this one will be even more severe.
I don't have high hopes Bob...the ridge I hunt in Beckett went from covered with birds in 2013 to completely void of life last season...not a single gobble, not even from the yards in the valley...3 feet of fluffy snow doesn't help at all...:(
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I haven't seen a turkey since early January, although we have some really deep snow up here I am beginning to see deer on the south west slopes digging for food. Just like the Sandy Neck beaches, mother nature has a plan................. PS Just wonderin how the seals are making out in this weather :huh:

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